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MEETING AT THE ANCIENT FOEEST OF DEERFOLD. 



Tuesday, May 24, 1870. 



•Then thick as locusts blackening all the ground, 

 A tribe with weeds and shells fantastic crowned. 

 Each with some wondrous gift approached the rower, 

 A Nest, a Toad, a Fungus, or a Flower." 



The Dunciad. 



The discoveries made in the Forest of Deerfold during the past year have 

 once more brought this secluded district into notice. Its very name had weU 

 ni«h been forgotten. Few are ever called upon to visit it, and these would 

 scarcely recognise the name in its present form of " Darvold." It is six miles 

 from everywhere," said one gentleman, "and generally a good many more. 



The Transactions of the Woolhope Club have restored it once again to 

 society and the Club fixed its first meeting of the year to see its Mistletoe-oak, 

 to gather the Asarabacca on the spot, and to visit the actual place which was 

 the refuge of some of the leading Lollards during their persecution some 500 



years ago. , ,. . 



By a skilful arrangement of rail and coach, and favoured by the present 

 lovely weather, the visit has been accomplished most satisfactorily. Conveyances 

 had been sent on from Hereford to the Kingsland station, and on the arrival of 

 the train at 10.10 a.m. they were well freighted with passengers. 



The ground first traversed was that so rich in historical associations the 

 celebrated battle field of Mortimer's Cross. Many gentlemen present saw this 

 beautiful and extensive plain-the great west plain as it was formerly called-fov 



